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Oh... God, I don't think I could survive another four years of tyranny.

Most of us in the first word today don't really know what tyranny is. You wax poetic about the "tyranny" of Trump, @jvikings1 uses the term "tyranny" of the majority to justify keeping the outmoded Electoral College as is. @servo75 and others call Obama and other Democrats "Communists," and such. This hyperbole shows that many modern First World citizens don't have a clue. I had a friend who was born in Rwanda, but his parents fled with him to a refugee camp in neighbouring Uganda to escape the TYRANT Gregoire Karabanda. He spent 30 years as a refugee in Uganda before immigrating to Canada, including being there for the entirety of the regime of the TYRANT Idi Amin Dada and much of the regime of the TYRANT Milton Obote. My mother, when she upgraded her training to become a respiratory therapist when I was in high school, had a classmate who was a woman from Iraq who had lived under the TYRANT Saddam Hussein, and had talked about him somewhat. I also knew an immigrant from Zimbabwe who had lived a long time under the TYRANT Robert Mugabe. My brother, as a tool shop inspector for a company that ran tool shops for international oil interests, has been to, among other countries, Cuba, Venezuela (Chavez-era), Libya (pre-civil war), Algeria, Gabon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and China, all governed by TYRANTS. And there is, in my apartment building, and older Chilean-born man who says, in stories that bring him to tears, that he was arrested and tortured buy the TYRANT Pinoche's secret on suspicion alone of association with Communist rebels. So, I've heard second hand, if nothing else, that true tyranny is nothing like what we face in the first, and all hyperbole using the word "tyrant" just because we disagree with a politician or their policies or we're defending a specific electoral mechanic whose main alternative has nicely worked nicely elsewhere (including in U.S. State Gubernatorial Elections, themselves) is insincere, manipulative, uninformed, incendiary, and/or "crying wolf." That's my opinion - and this is coming from someone who cannot stand Donald Trump and believes he's unfit for office.

Most of us in the first word today don't really know what tyranny is. You wax poetic about the "tyranny" of Trump, @jvikings1 uses the term "tyranny" of the majority to justify keeping the outmoded Electoral College as is. @servo75 and others call Obama and other Democrats "Communists," and such. This hyperbole shows that many modern First World citizens don't have a clue. I had a friend who was born in Rwanda, but his parents fled with him to a refugee camp in neighbouring Uganda to escape the TYRANT Gregoire Karabanda. He spent 30 years as a refugee in Uganda before immigrating to Canada, including being there for the entirety of the regime of the TYRANT Idi Amin Dada and much of the regime of the TYRANT Milton Obote. My mother, when she upgraded her training to become a respiratory therapist when I was in high school, had a classmate who was a woman from Iraq who had lived under the TYRANT Saddam Hussein, and had talked about him somewhat. I also knew an immigrant from Zimbabwe who had lived a long time under the TYRANT Robert Mugabe. My brother, as a tool shop inspector for a company that ran tool shops for international oil interests, has been to, among other countries, Cuba, Venezuela (Chavez-era), Libya (pre-civil war), Algeria, Gabon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and China, all governed by TYRANTS. And there is, in my apartment building, and older Chilean-born man who says, in stories that bring him to tears, that he was arrested and tortured buy the TYRANT Pinoche's secret on suspicion alone of association with Communist rebels. So, I've heard second hand, if nothing else, that true tyranny is nothing like what we face in the first, and all hyperbole using the word "tyrant" just because we disagree with a politician or their policies or we're defending a specific electoral mechanic whose main alternative has nicely worked nicely elsewhere (including in U.S. State Gubernatorial Elections, themselves) is insincere, manipulative, uninformed, incendiary, and/or "crying wolf." That's my opinion - and this is coming from someone who cannot stand Donald Trump and believes he's unfit for office.

Who is Gregoire Karabanda? I tried to look him up, because I did not know the name, but I did not find anything helpful

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For the initial posting: some people in Austria also call President Van der Bellen a fascist dictator. Although I would never ever vote for him, I think such labeling is just ridiculous.

Speaking of Austria, I forgot to add to the list of individuals I have second-hand knowledge of real tyranny of above the elderly Austrian woman who lived next door to me where I grew up as a child and adolescent and who I mowed her lawn for her for extra spending money who told me quite chilling tales of her being a schoolgirl in Vienna in 1938...

Booker and Delaney withdraw one day after Super Tuesday. And then the next day, Paul, Corker, Hickenlooper, and Holder all withdraw.

Trump: 678

Kasich: 129

Corker: 118

Paul: 41

Trump and Biden are the clear front runners right now. Garcetti is actually only polling at 3%, but he won California so he got a lot of delegates from that (similar with Holder, who won Texas but nothing else)

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A little let than a month until the election. Trump currently leads (though Gillibrand would likely end up winning popular vote). The Midwest is turning quite red, while areas like the Southeast may be turning out in favor for the democrats.

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In the end, Gillibrand was not able to take the White House from Trump. But she did manage to win the popular vote by over 4% (6 million+ votes!).

Blue states went even more blue this time (Dems got over 70% of the vote in Cali, NY, VT, and RI, as well as 60+% in a number of other states). Republicans barely held onto PA, WI, MI, and squeaked out a victory in MN too. Interesting win from the Dems in Indiana though. I attached the results file also if you want to see all the state results